Italian right winger calls for rape of black minister

This is not the first time Cecile Kyenge has suffered abuse from the Northern League

VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

James Bone

Friday June 14 2013, 1.01am, The Times

A local politician faced expulsion from Italy’s anti-immigrant Northern League last night after she called for the country’s first black minister to be raped so she could understand violent crime by foreigners.

“Won’t someone rape her, just to make her understand what victims of this terrible crime feel? For shame!” Dolores Valandro, a councillor in the northern city of Padua, wrote on Facebook next to a photograph of Cecile Kyenge, the immigration minister, who comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Ms Valandro, who has already been suspended from the party six weeks ago, was commenting on an article on a website called “all immigrant crimes” about an alleged attempt by a Somali in Genoa to rape two Romanian girls.